Elections
New MN SIGGRAPH
officers:
Chair: Murray Holloway
Vice Chair: Drew Pauley
Treasurer: Andrew McCulloh
Secretary: Rob Halvorson
Discussion
Tours
One of the
top ideas for the Chapter was tours - touring local
animation and production
studios for MN SIGGRAPH meetings. This
has been done before in the past, and it was met
with great enthusiasm. All present were
in favor of doing such. To make this happen, please
send an email to
and put your name
in as one of
the animation / production studios that
our local SIGGRAPH chapter will be able
to visit and tour. Wet Cement Productions offered their
studio as one that could be toured for a SIGGRAPH meeting.
Panel Discussion / Debate
All present would like to see a
forum where particular topics could be
discussed by invited speakers, and
then a time given to the members to ask
questions & debate
topics.
One such topic that had great interest
was “Education
for Animation in
the Twin Cities.”
Issues therein:
1. Great demand for classes that teach quality 3D
animation programs.
2. Students that graduate with good demo
reels.
3. Filtering process for students going
into such programs.
4. Generating the student body that would
be needed to support such
expensive classes and cover costs for
the instructors.
5. Studios taking on interns, teaching
and helping to create demo reels
for students, but most feel
that the schools and the studios
could never develop a program where schools
would work with the studios to
develop intern opportunities (or vice
versa?).
6. Creating programs that teach 3D game
development. The demand for
learning game development is one of
the most popular today, yet
our local
resources for teaching game development
seems very small.
7. And more!
Jobs
Staying
connected means hearing about job opportunities.
One current opening was mentioned at the meeting -
to be
posted to the e-mail list.
MET 2003
We've had a great start,
but we are always looking for more support.
If
you are interested, or know of a
good resource for the MET 2003,
please contact us!
Minnesota
Electronic Theatre 2003 (Website no longer online.)
October 28, 2003 5:30PM
The Fine Line Music
Cafe
